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“So where are going?” Willie asked as he took in the Malibu mansion in front of them.
“You like yelling in museums and skating in Justin Beiber’s pool,” Alex shrugged with a smile, “this is what I like to do to chill.”
Alex reached out for the other to take his hand and even though Willie gave him a look he obliged, their fingers entwining as he followed the blonde.
It was still a bit of a novelty being able to move around as a ghost and not having to obey the laws of physics. It didn’t take long before they appeared in a room that looked like a small version of a dance studio. On the other side of the room was a girl in workout clothes, sipping from some water as she appeared to be going over some notes.
“Who’s she?”
“Her name is Carrie, she’s kind of Julie’s arch enemy,” Alex explained. “She also happens to be the daughter of that guy we were wanting to get back at.”
“Oh I see,” Willie couldn’t help but smirk, “Mess with the daughter and you kill two birds with one stone.”
Alex opened his mouth to speak but paused for a moment. “No, it’s not like that at all. Just watch, this is my way to just let everything out. You know, to relax a little.”
Willie just shrugged as he leaned back against the wall. Carrie grabbed her phone, starting music on her phone that played through the Bluetooth speakers set up around the room.
Showtime , Alex smiled to himself. Ever since the performance at “Eats and Beats” where he had decided to crash Dirty Candy’s performance he had investigated Carrie a little further. He had to admit, even if she was the competition, she had a good sound and damn did he love her style and choreography.
Finding out about her practice studio at home he had visited on more than one occasion to rehearse with her and at this point he had not only memorized the choreo for “All Eyes On Me” but even added his own flair to it as well.
Carrie started to dance to the song and Alex joined in the way he usually did, making sure to throw a wink at Willie as he did. So maybe he was showing off a little bit more than usual but it wasn’t every day that you had an incredibly cute ghost checking you out like that. Things were going really well between the two of them, especially since Julie had lifted Caleb’s curse from him, Reggie and Luke. He had hated the way that Willie had carried guilt about that and now that it was dealt with, he had nothing left to feel guilty about. All that was left was to help Willie get out of Caleb’s clutches as well.
Maybe it was the thrill of having Willie’s full attention but Alex suddenly had the urge to start singing along with the song as he danced.
“ Some might say I sound conceited, ” Alex belted out along with the music and he didn’t notice at first the way that Carrie started to look around the room, he was too focused on the boy in front of him.
“ They don’t get the shine that I get,” as Alex continued Carrie stopped dancing, she began to search the room more frantically.
“ Some get jealous they can’t help it, They wish they were me! ” As he hit the note of the last word he could swear Carrie locked eyes with him.
Her eyes widened in horror before she let out a scream, bolting from the studio. The music continued as she had run off without grabbing her phone but at that moment the last thing on Alex’s mind was to continue his performance.
“Did she just...” He looked over to Willie dumbfounded.
“See you?” He finished Alex’s sentence for him.
The two of them stood there in silence as the song played out, the room falling quiet as the final notes of the song faded away.
“There’s no way…”
He was always in the Molina’s space and he knew that Carlos and Ray had never seen any of them and that was even with Reggie trying profusely. Maybe Carlos had figured out about them but that was totally different than actually being able to see him outside of performing with Julie.
“Wait, you said that people could see you when you played music with Julie right?” Willie finally asked.
“Yeah, but I wasn’t playing and I wasn’t with Julie. How is that even possible?” Alex could feel a knot in his stomach.
“You were singing,” Willie couldn’t help but point out. “Maybe that had something to do with it?”
Alex couldn’t help but sigh, “Well, whatever happened I won’t be coming back for dance practice again any time soon.”
“Well, if you need some stress relief you can always come and scream in museums with me,” Willie smiled at him as he offered out his hand to the other.
Alex couldn’t help himself from smiling as he took his hand, “Yeah, I’ll probably take you up on that offer.